Fidel Castro Praises
Book on Father
Cuban leader Fidel
Castro was grateful to
writer Katiuska Blanco's
for her respect and love
for the figure of his
father Angel Castro, in
the testimonial book
launched as a
culmination of the 17th
International Book Fair.
"Angel, la raiz gallega
de Fidel," was launched
Sunday at the Nicolas
Guillen Hall and is a
valuable testimony and
homage to Galician
emigration to Cuba.
Journalist Randy Alonso,
director of the daily
Roundtable TV
Informative Program,
read the message in
which Fidel Castro
refers to the Sunday
vote in the Parliament.
The document states he
did not vote against any
candidate, and adds that
"defense is hermetically
sealed against the
empire's plans."
The Revolution's chief
highlighted in a
beautiful dedication the
virtues of journalist
Katiuska Blanco, who
previously wrote the
title "Todo el tiempo de
los cedros," on Fidel
Castro's childhood in
Biran, Holguin.
Fidel Castro mentions
the letter he sent to
her some days ago, in
which Blanco, after
being touched by the
leader's decision of not
aspiring or accepting
the presidency of the
State Council, talked of
his wisdom and the
fortunate continuance of
his strategic vision.
Havana City historian
Eusebio Leal and Miguel
Barnet, president of the
organizing commission at
the Seventh Congress of
the National Union of
Writers and Artists of
Cuba, praised the prose
and poetics of that
title.
Born in 1875, Angel
Castro Argiz set sail
for Cuba in 1895 as a
Spanish soldier to
return to his country
four years later. At the
beginning of the 20th
century, he emigrated
for good and settled in
Biran, in the current
province of Holguin,
where the Castro Ruz
family had its origin.
Abel Prieto, member of
the Cuban Communist
Party's Political
Bureau, Carlos
Valenciaga, member of
the State Council, and
relatives of Raul and
Fidel attended the book
launching.
The 17th International
Book Fair, opened
February 14 with the
presence of Raul Castro,
President of the Council
of State, had Galicia,
Spain, as a guest of
honor. |
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